Congress is best known as a group of people in Washington, D.C. who don’t get along and get very little done. However, there’s also a city in Arizona named Congress, one with a peculiar roadside attraction that was created by the forces of geology but thrust into the spotlight by a woman with a bucket of paint.
Meet The 60 Ton Rock That Looks Like a Frog
Congress is located northwest of Phoenix, and has had a fairly colorful history, even when you don’t consider its famous frog. Like many cities in Arizona, it was a gold-mining ghost town; however, unlike many ghost towns it found it’s way to being populated again, this time by retirees and folks working in nearby Wickenburg. otherwise, it was fairly nondescript. Naturally, the rocks in Congress were nondescript as well, until one day when a woman named Sara Perkins saw a rock that looked kinda like a frog and decided to paint it accordingly. The rest, as they say, is history: the frog could be seen clearly from nearby Highway 89 and people flocked (or ribbited) to see it.
It’s A Demanding Frog
Eventually, Mrs. Perkins grew too old to care for the famous frog, so the task fell to the locals. One of the aforementioned locals, a 76 year-old woman named Rose Mary Goodson, fell while visiting the frog and fell onto the rocks below. She earned herself some scratches and some mild notoriety. Painting the frog regularly is important due to the hot desert temperatures, and it’s no easy task: you’ll need a ladder, and you’ll have to climb a barbed-wire fence with it and your buckets of paint. Still, it doesn’t stop the dedicated people of Congress who simply adore their favorite local rock formation!
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By the way, this article is part of a series on Arizona’s Amazing Roadside Attractions.
